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Are You Listening?
USC’s student-run radio station KSCR is increasingly professional, but most students are Unaware of the differences on the air / 7
DM TROJAN
Student newspaper of the University of Southern California
WEDNESDAY
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February 13, 2002
Of interest...
The Stars and Stripes are meant to unite, but some are making the flag a political symbol / 4
News Digest 2 Calendar 2
Opinions 4 Lifestyle 7
The Buzz 7 Classifieds 12
Crossword 13 Sports 16
vol. CVL, no. 25 www.dailytrojan.com
Phi Delt’s fraternity privileges revoked
Discipline: Student Conduct hands down strongest reprimands on a Greek house in recent history
By SPENCER MORGAN
Staff Writer
Phi Delta Theta was kicked off the Row until the spring of 2005 because of infractions involving drugs, a member shooting someone with a BB gun, fighting, disturbing the peace and prior probation. The four-year suspension is one of the harshest punishments a USC fraternity has ever received.
USC officially revoked Phi Delta Theta's university recognition at the end of last month, rejecting the fraternity’s appeal of the original ruling in December. The university handed down the ruling disavowing the house’s affiliation with the university for three years, when the fraternity will be eligible to reapply for recognition.
In the last five years, 10 fraternities and one sorority have had their recognition revoked, in most cases for two years.
“It’s a relatively rare and severe I see Fraternity, page 14 I
Candidates set their stakes
Section: Candidates waste no time putting up posters to attract support
By ROBB FERRIS
Student Senate Writer
Candidates and their supporters were positioned around nearly every kiosk and spare inch of space until one minute after midnight, when they would begin blanketing the campus with posters and fliers for their chosen Student Senate candidate.
Harold Mann Jr., director of elections, officially began the campaigning season as soon as his cell phone read 12:01 a.m.Tuesday. From then on, volunteers worked frantically, stapling posters onto kiosks and staking signs in the lawns along Trousdale Parkway.
Droves of volunteers supporting presidential candidate Matt Weir and vice presidential candidate Lauren Geissler waited from 8 p.m. near the kiosks, prepared to mobilize as soon as Mann gave the word, said Davin Sweeney, volunteer coordinator for Weir and Geissler.
“We had a map of every kiosk in the area and had volunteers set up there, ready to go,” said Sweeney, a junior majoring in Spanish and cine-ma-television critical studies.
Samantha Lim, a candidate for Greek senator, took a much simpler approach, utilizing a team of five volunteers to comb Trousdale and post Lim’s fluorescent yellow signs.
Lim’s volunteers were finished in about 20 minutes.
There was less of an emphasis on posting fliers among candidates running for Greek, residential or commuter senators, whereas posters may
be incredibly important for presidential slates.
“I think it’s different for Greek senators,” Lim said. “The posters mostly serve to get your name out there. My hope is that people understand candidates’ issues and their platforms when deciding who to vote for, and don’t rely solely on name recognition.”
Volunteers supporting presidential candidate Andrew Compton and vice presidential candidate Nina Williams moved quickly and had combed the center of campus by 1 I see Campaign, page 2 I
SIDEBAR
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Meeting: Senate members vote against admentment to elections code
By ROBB FERRIS
Student Senate Writer
An amendment requiring all volunteers working for Student Senate candidates to be registered with the Elections Commission was defeated at the Student Senate meeting Tuesday in Leavey Auditorium.
Although most of the members are in favor of the bill in theory, Senators voted down the amendment because the campaign process has already begun.
“...What safeguards do we have that candidates will be notified and I see Meeting, page 13 I
Rose Ahn I Daily Trojan
Night owls. Freshman business major Christine Mosessian helps Senate candidates put up posters shortly after midnight.
Ex-child soldier shares experiences
Politics: Drafted into combat at age 13, « Ismael Baeh survived Sierra Leones battlefields to testify against exploitation
By SHAHIEN NASIRIP0UR
Contributing Writer
“One love” — it’s often used as a parting phrase to indicate a sense of family and solidarity amongst peers.
To hear Ismael Baeh use it, the phrase takes on a completely different meaning.
‘"One love’ refers to what was done to many villagers in Sierra Leone,” Baeh said. “(The army and rebel group) pretty much chopped off all your fingers, except for your thumb, and they sent you into towns to warn people, ‘it’s one love,’ and if anybody wants to leave, then it’s not going to be ‘one love.’’’
Baeh continued with his story of horror as a former child soldier caught in the middle of a civil war funded by the illegal diamond trade on the west coast of Africa.
“Blood was spilling all over my face,” he said. “Some of the kids were so young that they were unable to carry
I see Soldier, page 13 I
"(The army and rebel group) pretty much chopped off allyour fingers... and sent you into towns to warn people'.' — ISMAEL BAEH former child soldier
Number of student smokers decreases
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HEALTH & MEDICINE
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Randall Yong I Daily Trojan
Cigarette break. George Benjamin, a freshman majoring in music industry, smokes outside Taper Hall after class Tuesday. USC students fall below the national average of college-age smokers.
By SCOTT MARTINDALE
Health & Medicine Writer
Almost 20 percent of USC students have smoked within the last 30 days, and more than five percent smoke daily, but these numbers are below the national average, according to the latest data from the Student Health Center.
The survey, based on anonymous responses from more than 500 students in spring 2000, confirmed a drop in USC student smokers after a peak in 1998, said Jenny Attanasio, a health educator for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, a division of the Student Health Center.
Between 35 and 40 percent of college students nationwide have tried tobacco products within the I see Smokers, page 14 I

Are You Listening?
USC’s student-run radio station KSCR is increasingly professional, but most students are Unaware of the differences on the air / 7
DM TROJAN
Student newspaper of the University of Southern California
WEDNESDAY
------------♦--------------
February 13, 2002
Of interest...
The Stars and Stripes are meant to unite, but some are making the flag a political symbol / 4
News Digest 2 Calendar 2
Opinions 4 Lifestyle 7
The Buzz 7 Classifieds 12
Crossword 13 Sports 16
vol. CVL, no. 25 www.dailytrojan.com
Phi Delt’s fraternity privileges revoked
Discipline: Student Conduct hands down strongest reprimands on a Greek house in recent history
By SPENCER MORGAN
Staff Writer
Phi Delta Theta was kicked off the Row until the spring of 2005 because of infractions involving drugs, a member shooting someone with a BB gun, fighting, disturbing the peace and prior probation. The four-year suspension is one of the harshest punishments a USC fraternity has ever received.
USC officially revoked Phi Delta Theta's university recognition at the end of last month, rejecting the fraternity’s appeal of the original ruling in December. The university handed down the ruling disavowing the house’s affiliation with the university for three years, when the fraternity will be eligible to reapply for recognition.
In the last five years, 10 fraternities and one sorority have had their recognition revoked, in most cases for two years.
“It’s a relatively rare and severe I see Fraternity, page 14 I
Candidates set their stakes
Section: Candidates waste no time putting up posters to attract support
By ROBB FERRIS
Student Senate Writer
Candidates and their supporters were positioned around nearly every kiosk and spare inch of space until one minute after midnight, when they would begin blanketing the campus with posters and fliers for their chosen Student Senate candidate.
Harold Mann Jr., director of elections, officially began the campaigning season as soon as his cell phone read 12:01 a.m.Tuesday. From then on, volunteers worked frantically, stapling posters onto kiosks and staking signs in the lawns along Trousdale Parkway.
Droves of volunteers supporting presidential candidate Matt Weir and vice presidential candidate Lauren Geissler waited from 8 p.m. near the kiosks, prepared to mobilize as soon as Mann gave the word, said Davin Sweeney, volunteer coordinator for Weir and Geissler.
“We had a map of every kiosk in the area and had volunteers set up there, ready to go,” said Sweeney, a junior majoring in Spanish and cine-ma-television critical studies.
Samantha Lim, a candidate for Greek senator, took a much simpler approach, utilizing a team of five volunteers to comb Trousdale and post Lim’s fluorescent yellow signs.
Lim’s volunteers were finished in about 20 minutes.
There was less of an emphasis on posting fliers among candidates running for Greek, residential or commuter senators, whereas posters may
be incredibly important for presidential slates.
“I think it’s different for Greek senators,” Lim said. “The posters mostly serve to get your name out there. My hope is that people understand candidates’ issues and their platforms when deciding who to vote for, and don’t rely solely on name recognition.”
Volunteers supporting presidential candidate Andrew Compton and vice presidential candidate Nina Williams moved quickly and had combed the center of campus by 1 I see Campaign, page 2 I
SIDEBAR
----♦---
Meeting: Senate members vote against admentment to elections code
By ROBB FERRIS
Student Senate Writer
An amendment requiring all volunteers working for Student Senate candidates to be registered with the Elections Commission was defeated at the Student Senate meeting Tuesday in Leavey Auditorium.
Although most of the members are in favor of the bill in theory, Senators voted down the amendment because the campaign process has already begun.
“...What safeguards do we have that candidates will be notified and I see Meeting, page 13 I
Rose Ahn I Daily Trojan
Night owls. Freshman business major Christine Mosessian helps Senate candidates put up posters shortly after midnight.
Ex-child soldier shares experiences
Politics: Drafted into combat at age 13, « Ismael Baeh survived Sierra Leones battlefields to testify against exploitation
By SHAHIEN NASIRIP0UR
Contributing Writer
“One love” — it’s often used as a parting phrase to indicate a sense of family and solidarity amongst peers.
To hear Ismael Baeh use it, the phrase takes on a completely different meaning.
‘"One love’ refers to what was done to many villagers in Sierra Leone,” Baeh said. “(The army and rebel group) pretty much chopped off all your fingers, except for your thumb, and they sent you into towns to warn people, ‘it’s one love,’ and if anybody wants to leave, then it’s not going to be ‘one love.’’’
Baeh continued with his story of horror as a former child soldier caught in the middle of a civil war funded by the illegal diamond trade on the west coast of Africa.
“Blood was spilling all over my face,” he said. “Some of the kids were so young that they were unable to carry
I see Soldier, page 13 I
"(The army and rebel group) pretty much chopped off allyour fingers... and sent you into towns to warn people'.' — ISMAEL BAEH former child soldier
Number of student smokers decreases
€
HEALTH & MEDICINE
■——♦--
Randall Yong I Daily Trojan
Cigarette break. George Benjamin, a freshman majoring in music industry, smokes outside Taper Hall after class Tuesday. USC students fall below the national average of college-age smokers.
By SCOTT MARTINDALE
Health & Medicine Writer
Almost 20 percent of USC students have smoked within the last 30 days, and more than five percent smoke daily, but these numbers are below the national average, according to the latest data from the Student Health Center.
The survey, based on anonymous responses from more than 500 students in spring 2000, confirmed a drop in USC student smokers after a peak in 1998, said Jenny Attanasio, a health educator for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, a division of the Student Health Center.
Between 35 and 40 percent of college students nationwide have tried tobacco products within the I see Smokers, page 14 I